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Dedicate yourself to the job, but don’t let the job be your life.

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Jobs are not so great. And they cause a lot of suffering. And you don’t really need them. Bear with me.

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Invent a Bring Your Dog To Work Day.

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1. You can’t run errands when you have a full-time job.

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The Cynic.  They will quickly turn even the best of news into a shitstorm of negativity.  You got a promotion?  Great, good luck doing more work. You’re pregnant? Wow that must be awful. You won the lottery? Statistically you’ll be miserable soon.

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8 hours. I can do this. I’ve spent 8 hours watching Grey’s Anatomy before and I wasn’t even getting paid to do that. Fuck, now I just want to watch Grey’s Anatomy.

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Having said that, there is really no reason to reinvent the wheel, even though there are many moving parts. If we keep this a high priority moving forward, this campaign can be used as an example of “best practices” in the future.

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The unblinking stare of my skull underneath the thin bloody sheath of my face managing a grimace, if only granted an expression.

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But the position you’ve accepted is “Content Manager” and in actuality you’ll be writing articles on real estate and educational resources for first-time homebuyers at a startup absolutely filled with business casual Web 2.0 enthusiasts who ‘get’ the internet. This is, of course, incredibly far off from what you really want to be doing (a novelist)…